Abigail Spanberger

Abigail Spanberger (7 August 1979-) was a Democratic political candidate who ran for Virginia's 7th congressional district in November 2018.

Biography
Abigail Spanberger was born in New Jersey in 1979 and grew up in Short Pump, Henrico County, Virginia. She served as a page for US Senator Chuck Robb and graduated from the University of Virginia, and she studied in Germany before becoming a federal law enforcement officer working with the Postal Inspection Service. She later became a CIA operations officer, and she traveled and lived abroad collecting intelligence, and she began working for EAB - Royall & Company in 2014. In 2018, she ran for the US House of Representatives as the Democratic candidate for Virginia's 7th congressional district, supporting affordable healthcare, gun control, protecting social security and Medicare, strengthening public education, immigrant rights, the decriminalization of marijuana, overturning Citizens United, energy independence, universal broadband access, veterans' issues, and assisting drug addicts.